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9
Wearable & Industrial Products Business Segment
This segment comprises the wearable products business, robotics solutions business, and the microdevices
business.
The main activities of these businesses are described below.
Wearable products business
This business leverages its ultrafine and ultraprecision machining and processing technologies and its high-density
mounting and assembly technologies to develop, manufacture and sell watches, as well as to develop, manufacture
and sell useful products that use high-accuracy sensors to connect people and information.
Watch business
This business primarily develops, manufactures, and sells watches and watch movements.
Sensing system business
This business is primarily engaged in developing, manufacturing, and selling sensing systems and equipment
that have extremely accurate built-in sensors and that are used in the personal health and sports fields etc.
Robotics solutions business
This business uses advanced precision mechatronics and other technologies to develop, manufacture, and sell
industrial robots and other production systems that dramatically increase productivity.
Micro-devices and others business
This business designs, manufactures, and sells small, accurate, energy-efficient electronic devices for external
customers as well as for other businesses in the Epson Group. It also provides metal powders and surface finishing
services.
Quartz device business
This business provides crystal units, crystal oscillators, and quartz sensors for consumer, automotive, and
industrial equipment applications.
Semiconductor business
This business provides CMOS LSIs and other chips mainly for consumer electronics and automotive
applications.
Others
This business develops, manufacturers, and sells a variety of high-performance metal powders for use as raw
materials in the production of electronic components, etc. This business also provides high-value-added surface
finishing in a wide variety of industrial fields.